Analysis of Social, Political and Economic Accomplishments in Governance: A Local History of Canlaon City, Negros Oriental (1850 to Present)

Abstract

This historical narrative seeks to retell and analyze Canlaon City's establishment and development from 1850 to 1947 as a Barrio of the Municipality of Vallehermoso, to a separate Municipality of Canlaon from 1947 to 1967, and finally to a City of Canlaon from 1967 to the present. The researcher collected data through documentary research and interview with a key informant. Canlaon City was founded and developed as a result of interplaying factors. Its progress was a tangled web of various accomplishments, a. Social achievements include the establishment and maintenance of health care, education, and public services; political achievements include the construction and expansion of infrastructure projects as well as the maintenance of peace and order; and economic achievements include the institutionalization of revenue collection sources and increased city income. These social, political, and economic achievements are not unilateral in nature, but rather reflect the interdependence of various functional imperatives that determined the city's establishment and development.